Mike Coffman

Passage of this legislation will help small businesses comply with complicated size and contracting rules while provided a safe harbor provision for those small businesses which are making a good faith effort to comply with those rules.

I think that is a much cheaper approach than sending somebody a disability check for the rest of their life.

I think that our approach is that we seem to have a disability-centric approach and not a treatment-centric approach.

This legislation is clearly, I think, as described today, is going to have a chilling effect on small businesses.

I applaud Congress for successfully repealing the 1099 tax-reporting requirement for any expenditure over $600.

A simple solution is a complete repeal of the entire health-care reform bill, replacing it with an affordable system that preserves consumer choice while not sacrificing quality care.

Unfortunately, each of these provisions are found in the President's health-care law.

On behalf of my constituents, I ask that you take this opportunity to act upon the urgent need to save Medicare.

I urge every member of the Budget Committee to give a full and fair consideration of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget alternative.

Americans want a land that is rich with opportunity for all and not just the privileged few.

I support reducing the deficit. But cutting non-defense discretionary spending alone will not solve the problem.

We must embrace a budget that provides a proven pathway out of poverty to prosperity for all Americans.

Economic opportunity for all is a value that defines the United States, and it is the responsibility of this Congress to make sure that our guiding principles are turned into a reality for all Americans.

I would urge the Committee to get the General Accounting Office to do a study of some of the problems that exist with this practice.

Unfortunately, what is non-existent is the will on the part of this administration to utilize the oil and natural gas we have.

Expanding domestic energy production will create jobs both with the firms drilling for oil and gas and those that support these activities.

I believe we will hear today there are things the government can do to address all of these concerns in party by producing more energy at home.

I will make sure that we don't go down that road again.

I don't think we are going to go down this heavy conventional footprint, nation-building path again.

It should not be the policy of OSM to make production of this affordable and readily accessible energy become even more restricted.

During a time when all energy production should be encouraged the President's budget and policy direction seems to be clearly pointed at greatly reducing our coal capacity.

The proposed budget and legislative proposals, including the new stream-buffer rule, will reduce access to affordable energy for many Americans by harming the ability of the coal industry to be a major part of our energy production.

I am concerned the President's budget proposal is focused on executing onerous federal regulations under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and forcing states to increase fee collection directly from mining companies to make up…

I want to thank Chairman Lamborn and the Sub-Committee for holding this hearing today.

We must rely on domestic supply of coal in order to reduce our dependence on foreign oil but how will increasing fees on coal production increase our supply?